Books Quote by Evangeline Lilly

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

— Horace

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

— Moliere

He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere…

— Roger Chamberlain

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it

— Finley Peter Dunne

Vices of the time; vices of the man.

— Francis Bacon

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her…

— Alexander Pope

Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

— Finley Peter Dunne

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

— Honore de Balzac

Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.

— Cassandra Clare

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

— Thornton Wilder

“If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of…

— Oscar Wilde

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

— Luc de Clapiers